ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 3rd of January WELCOME! SAINT HYMNEMUND, ABBOT OF ST MAURICE (ST MORITZ) Saint Hymnemund is also known as Hymnemondus, Hymnemodus , French Hynnemond . According to the Bollandists (February II, 545) , he was the first abbot of St Moritz ( Agaunum )[St Maurice] in the [Swiss] Canton of Valais, after this monastery had been refounded by Saint King Sigismund of Burgundy around the year 515 or 516. The Bollandists * mention him in connection with Saint Abbot Severinus and refer to him as Hynmemodus . The monastery in which Saint Hymnemund had previously resided was called Grave ( monasterium Gravense, Grevencense ), according to Burgener * also Boigin and Grigni ( Griniacense ), and was located in the city of Vienne. When Saint King Sigismund took Abbot Hymnemund with him to St Moritz at the time of the Council of St Moritz, the latter wished that Achivus would become his successor as abbot of Gr...